Oh hell ya I was lucky. Afterwards I lay awake at night sometimes wondering about why she didn't do this or that. Like, I had insurance on my mortgage. If she had knocked me off the mortgage would have been paid off and she'd have the condo for free. What's stupid is that she was involved with a group that charged for advice on how to get me to beat her up. Never worked of course because I'd just put my hands in my pockets and walk away which really drove her nuts but made me realize she had some sort of game plan. She'd get on the phone to her girlfriend and then start babbling about how we'd been fighting all day and she was terrified of me. I'd been just lounging around on the couch that weekend and my jaw just dropped. I'm like, "WTF???" And like one day she demanded we get a joint account and I put all my money in it and let her handle the bills. Oh hell no! I'd give her $300.00 on a Sunday before leaving for work and come home on Friday and she'd be broke. She's not paying rent, kitchen is all stocked up before I leave, so what the hell was she spending money on? I cut her off and would hand her son a $20.00 bill right in front of her before I'd leave. Sometimes her attempts at manipulation were just hilarious. When I told her I wanted an annulment the first words out of her mouth were, "You signed papers" which came out as a sort of menacing growl. I started laughing. "Yah, and I can unsign them!". Then she went into whimper mode and started that fake sobbing noise. I'm sitting in the living room listening to this bullshit and kind of snickering to myself. From the kitchen I hear, "You're so stupid". Me: "So why did you marry me?". "Because, I didn't know, now what to do?" Me: "Seems like you're the stupid one then.". One weekend I get up, she refuses to make any breakfast so I go to the kitchen to make some food. She's shoving me around, won't let me use the kitchen or get food out and then when I reach in the fridge to at least get some water slams the door on my head. Now I'm pissed. I go out, get a twelve pack of beer and come back. Beer for breakfast because I can see this is going to be a hell of a weekend already. She calls the cops on me. Just to be sure I walk into the kitchen to listen in and realize my suspicions are correct as she hangs up. I double over laughing my ass off. She: "Why you laugh!!" very indignant. Me: "Because you called the cops on yourself." She realizes she's screwed and calls the cops back. Tells dispatch it's all a mistake and I'm sorry now then hangs up. I call the dispatch back up and tell them, no, it's no mistake they they should come out to see what's going on. I'm serious. Cops show up and I'm just sitting there in front of the TV having my second beer. She claims we've been fighting all night in spite of me sleeping on the couch all night and I've been drinking all night, "See, he has beer!" I show the cops my two empties and the rest of the twelve pack is unopened. I'd just purchased it. I tell them how I've been assaulted and how she's not letting me use the kitchen or even get bottled water out of the fridge. Cops tell me I should just leave and get a motel room. Nope. I've been in a motel all week and I pay for this place so I get to use it on the weekends at least. Then, like an idiot she is in the other room cursing me in Russian. I point this out to the police as she's still cursing and even though they don't understand Russian they understand the tone. She can't control herself. They tell her to pack some clothes and leave for a friend's house but she argues and points to the beer again. Cop says, "Oh, that's ok, he can drink a few beers." The look on her face was priceless. Yes you bitch, we can drink beer in our own home in USA. Me sitting on the couch calmly explaining things to the police a mild tone wins out over the cursing hysterical bitch. That's when I made the mistake of not getting a restraining order. Should have done that but that's hindsight.